Help us name the tables in our 50's themed wedding!

October 10, 2007 3:53 PM

Our wedding is 50's themed and we're trying to name the tables after popular 50's fads/icons/music etc. Unfortunately, browsing online and our own limited knowledge of the decade has brought up short on enough names.

So far we have names like "The Car Hop", "Cadillac Lounge", "Sunset Boulevard", "Beatniks" but we need a lot more.

Any help would be appreciated!

posted by purephase to Grab Bag (20 answers total)

The Greaser

The Hula Hoop
posted by brain cloud at 3:56 PM on October 10, 2007

Bomb Shelter
posted by Thorzdad at 3:57 PM on October 10, 2007

Red scare, Poodle Skirt, Bomb shelter, Brylcreem.
posted by kuujjuarapik at 3:58 PM on October 10, 2007

Cowboys & Indians
Twilight Zone
Black & White
Sanitized for Your Protection
The Drive In
TV Dinner
posted by clarkstonian at 4:02 PM on October 10, 2007

Tuna Casserole
Avocado Green
posted by Deathalicious at 4:03 PM on October 10, 2007

High Noon

Syngman Rhee

Singin' in the Rain

Stalag 17

Rebel Without a Cause

Studebaker

Payola

Dwight David Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex

Howdy Doody and the Peanut Gallery (good for groomsmen)
posted by Megafly at 4:11 PM on October 10, 2007

heh, you could do all burma shave signs. alas, very few of our generation will get it, but your parents will roll.
posted by thinkingwoman at 4:32 PM on October 10, 2007

Just use all the characters from Grease -- Danny, Sandy, Betty, Rizzo, Kenickie, etc...
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 4:36 PM on October 10, 2007

...or the television show Happy Days.
posted by gummi at 4:47 PM on October 10, 2007

Richie
Fonzie
Potsy
Joanie
Chachi
Ralph
Arnold
...

(and "Chuck" for the missing guests)
posted by bondcliff at 4:54 PM on October 10, 2007

CURSE YOU, GUMMI!
posted by bondcliff at 4:54 PM on October 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

Recommend you go for widely known titles of books, movies and songs.
posted by A189Nut at 4:57 PM on October 10, 2007

white gloves
posted by amtho at 5:32 PM on October 10, 2007

I think songs and/or artists are good ideas. You could probably get alot of milage from Elvis songs: Heartbreak Hotel,
Viva Las Vegas, etc.
posted by Bella Sebastian at 5:50 PM on October 10, 2007

I'd pick a subtheme - Elvis's songs, Marilyn's movies, popular dances or musicians, items of clothing, or some such thing. It sounds a little too random when there's no theme other than the 50's.

VERY cute idea!
posted by orange swan at 6:35 PM on October 10, 2007 [1 favorite]

"I like Ike," the Twist, the Bunny Hop, the Bop, "American Bandstand," ducktails (hairstyle), Pat Boone and white bucks, Sandra Dee, Annette Funicello and the Mousketeers, coonskin caps (the Davy Crocket craze), the "Banana Boat Song" by Harry Belafonte
posted by Smalltown Girl at 7:30 PM on October 10, 2007

Lift and Separate
Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
Captain Kangaroo
posted by workinggringa at 7:38 PM on October 10, 2007

You could name the tables after Cold War hotspots:
Korea
Berlin
Quemoy
Matsu
Iran
Albania
Yugoslavia
Hungary ...

... or Cold-War era hairdos:
Ducktail
Flip
Bouffant
Pixie
Greaser
Crewcut
Ponytail
Pageboy
Beehive
posted by rob511 at 7:53 PM on October 10, 2007

Beebo Brinker (character in contemporary series of lesbian pulp fiction which has since been reprinted by Cleis).
posted by brujita at 10:35 PM on October 10, 2007

I think you need a "Doo Wop" table.
posted by genefinder at 7:17 AM on October 11, 2007